From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 16:17:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8630216A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C3943D49 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:17:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.91] ([66.127.85.91]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i6QGHVWi034409 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, robertsg@westnet.com.au Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:17:58 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200407270035.34991.robertsg@westnet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200407270035.34991.robertsg@westnet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407260917.58578.sam@errno.com> Subject: Re: ath driver and wg311t X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:17:52 -0000 On Monday 26 July 2004 07:35 am, Geoff Roberts wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a Netgear WG311T (Atheros chip) card in my FreeBSD current > machine. I'm trying to set it up as an access point. > > The card at the other end is a netgear WG111 (USB) on windows XP. > > It is very, very hard to get the two to connect (takes hours). Most of the > time they don't. Once connected though they stay connected pretty well. > > I've turned on debug.ieee80211 and get the error message: > unsupported auth 1. > > Looking through the code this means the WG111 on XP is trying to access the > WG311T on FreeBSD via a shared key - yet I've told XP to use open mode. > > Unfortunately I don't have another wireless card to see whether it is just > the WG111 on XP that is the problem (it could be the driver on XP ignoring > the open mode selection). > > Could it also be the FreeBSD ath driver telling the XP machine to connect > with a shared key? Your problem is likely due to use of 11g. The existing net80211 code in FreeBSD is missing proper 11g support. Try forcing the ap to use only 11b and see if things work. Sam